Unesco Kezmarok and Spiska Sobota

Specific samples of sacred architecture in Slovakia are the wooden churches. Their folk builders expressed the perfect harmony of the human soul with nature and the effort to disengage from earthly worries.

Unesco Kezmarok and Spiska Sobota

Specific samples of sacred architecture in Slovakia are the wooden churches. Their folk builders expressed the perfect harmony of the human soul with nature and the effort to disengage from earthly worries.
€69.00

The “articled” churches are other type of wooden churches (for instance Kežmarok). The “articled” churches are those built under the article of the law issued by Emperor Leopold I at the end of the 17th century.Wooden churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area, which were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2008, also Evangelical articular churches in Kežmarok.

The dominant of the town Kežmarok is the Castle  Kežmarský hrad that has entered the history of tourism in the High Tatras as the salient point of the first known tourist trip to this mountain range. The urban compound of the castle originated in 1463.

Spišská Sobota is historically the biggest urban district of Poprad. Spišská Sobota represents one of the best preserved medieval urban units in Slovakia. Its core is a triangle-shaped square bordered by a row of burgher houses built on narrow medieval plots. The typical trait of the burgher houses in Spišská Sobota are tall shingled roofs with massive shingled cornices. The Roman-Catholic church of St George built before 1273 in the Late-Romanesque style, was rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1464. The church contains five Gothic altars. The Late-Gothic wing altars of St George and St Anton were installed in the years between 1503 and 1520 in the workshop of Maestro Pavol of Levoča.

Category: Day trip, Duration 9 -10 hours, Condition: Very Easy.  Regular trip. Unesco trip. Date: Every Wednesday.

 

Schedule:

Pick up from the hotels:

08.15 Moldavska road

08.25 Mäsiarska street

08.30 Juzna trieda

08.40 Puskinova/Mlynska street

08.45 Tyrsovo nabrezie

08.55 Dolny Bankov

 

Tour:

10.15 - 10.45 wooden church in Kezmarok

11.00 - 12.00 Kezmarok castle

12.00 - 13.00 lunch

13.30-15.30 visit of Spisska Sobota/square, church of St George /

17.00- 17.40 drop off in the hotel in Kosice

*if your  address is not mentioned in the list be sure that pick up and drop off includes all location in Kosice I, Kosice II, Kosice III, Kosice IV. Be sure that you filled  to order form accurate address or name of pick up/ drop off location

Price: 69,- Eur minimum 4 persons

Price includes: Driver/guide, transfer, 12 Eur 2-course lunch, parking, highway fee, 15 eur entrances to wooden church, castle and church of St George , Tip in the sites and restaurant.

Price not includes: drinks, personal costs, tip to the guide/driver.